Cleveland has a new arts alliance with a new leader
Jeremy V. Johnson
A new nonprofit organization launching in June that aims to build a model to serve all of Cleveland s arts community has named the person who will lead the effort.
The group is called Assembly for the Arts, and on Monday morning, May 10, it announced it has selected Jeremy V. Johnson, a Cleveland native and most recently executive director of Newark Arts in New Jersey, as its leader. Johnson was chosen after a national search.
Assembly for the Arts is the result of more than a year of planning by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Arts Cleveland, and the Arts and Culture Action Committee, with support from the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation. In a news release, the groups said their goal was the create an organization that would serve the entire creative sector: artists, nonprofits and creative businesses. On its website, Assembly for the Arts describes itself as having a focus on advocacy and cu